The first issue of
Mixmag was printed on 1 February 1983 as a 16-page black-and-white magazine published by
Disco Mix Club, a DJ mailout service. The first cover featured American music group
Shalamar. When
house music began in the 1980s, editor and DJ
Dave Seaman turned the magazine from a newsletter for DJs into a magazine covering all dance music and club culture.
Mixmag, in association with its original publishing company, DMC Publishing, released a series of CDs under the "Mixmag Live" heading. The magazine, which reached a circulation of up to 70,000 copies, was later sold to
EMAP Ltd. in the mid-1990s. In 1996, an American version titled
Mixmag USA was launched. It was renamed Mixer after the UK edition of Mixmag was sold to EMAP. It ceased publication altogether in 2003. After a fall in sales in 2003,
Mixmag was acquired by Development Hell, in 2005. In 2007, Nick DeCosemo became editor. Patrick Hinton became editor in August 2022. In 2012,
The Guardian collaborated with
Mixmag on a survey of British drug-taking habits. The magazine ended its print edition in April 2020 during the
COVID-19 pandemic, and as of 2025 is now online only.
Mixmag is owned by Wasted Talent Ltd, a company which changed its name from Mixmag Media Ltd in May 2017. ==References==